three. young old free volunteers to video for your media project free media on down to r t dot com. north korea's rocket blastoff going to message of defiance young says it sent a weather satellite into space but it's enough to one of the region. moscow slams america's decision to recognize syria's opposition saying it puts the prospect of dialogue with risk. and president putin vows to cage the corrupt and says it's time for russians to seize the initiative in their country's development. this is r.t. with all the news that matters twenty four hours a day north korea has successfully launched

a rocket defying warnings from its neighbors and the u.s. is the second attempt this year after a failure in april killing young says it sent a weather satellite into orbit but washington seoul and tokyo claim its testing long range missile technology. is threatened for sanctions and the north has violated international law as it's banned from conducting ballistic missile tests by the u.n. washington called the launch highly provocative on japan the once a tough response from the u.n. security council but antiwar campaign eric surat can pressuring pyongyang won't help but only talks can work. these are causes to have more talks not less talks and the north koreans have been willing to attend talks other nations have certainly russia has and other nations are that have been involved in the six party talks japan south korea the united states are less willing to engage in talks when these things happen but what the u.n. said was not only don't use ballistic missile technology it said we must have

a commitment to a peaceful diplomatic and political solution to the situation there i'm afraid that the united states is going to step back talk less isolate more the military base that the united states brought merrily south korea's building on jesuit island in an effort to create a ring around china perhaps so to deal with north korea are all setbacks to peace what's necessary i think at this point in time is not is to step back from the process and the outside countries the other countries around the world must say wait a minute a peaceful china south korea north korea japan has a region will have a huge impact on world east and i think that it's really incumbent that we put pressures toward peace and not toward amping up the conflict any more. what russia has strongly criticised america's decision to formally recognize syria's opposition

coalition deeming it a violation of international agreements that call for dialogue there but alliance has also been officially recognized as a legitimate representative of the country's people are the friends of syria group in morocco but as artie's genotypic and explains the opposition forces of the only infiltrated by radical elements. they call themselves martyrs. all those you see around you of the fighters you see are living martyrs and the living martyr has already sacrificed a soul for this country the syrian rebels say they will stop at nothing to defeat us sot. some of them are so proud of their deeds that they post them on the web including the execution of prisoners. or having a child behead a man who was presumably an assault supporter atrocities are committed on all fronts during syria's bloody civil war according to many accounts on the ground it's islamist groups that do most of the fighting on behalf of the rebels dr tatar

we come meet was a member of a jihadi spoken ization twenty five years ago he later became a vocal opponent of radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin feels any form of whip around to to to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology representatives of opposition fighters came together in turkey last friday to form a unified command with the support of the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends one of the delegates at the meeting says two thirds of the islamist dominated anti assad groups have ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in karo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you

will love the government that comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to. focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage for the you will die like these do rabbits despite supporting the anti assad forces the obama

administration also recognizes that there are radical groups among the opposition in an attempt to distance themselves from extremists washington has designated one almost a terrorist organization it is thought to be one of the most aggressive and ruthless groups currently involved in the conflict it's seen as more of a symbolic move on washington's part as many other rebel fighters in syria welcomed the efforts of those designated terrorists. this is a demonstration of support for almost in syria with people heard chanting we are students of osama. in its own words the assad government is fighting terrorists that battle has claimed thousands of innocent lives the measures the syrian government resorted to have been widely criticized but does that mean the wall should keep their eyes shocked at who's actually fighting for power in syria now in washington i'm going to check on. well there's been or deadly

violence in syria with two blasts there a primary school southeast of the capital killing at least one person injuring five in a separate incident one person was wounded following two more explosions in a court building in damascus foreign policy experts say the warning signs of america recognizing the rebel coalition pushing syria deeper into a crisis which could echo region wide what it does is that it opens the door now for much more direct intervention in the civil war it will mean a heavy weapons will come in contention even i think you could end up with a no fly zone it's really pretty much an open declaration of war against the outside regime one of the things that i think is difficult is trying to get really accurate reporting it seems as if the our sort of regime is sort of its back against the wall and yet at the same time it doesn't seem as if the opposition could really hold on to territory i mean this could be a long running thing this could go on for a couple of months i think the u.s.

recognition here will accelerate the pressure on the awesome regime but i foresee here is is a lot of chaos i think you're going to see sunni extremism is going to be. essentially enhanced throughout the middle east which might mean are reigniting the civil war in iraq i think there's a possibility of regarding a civil war in lebanon on you have a situation currents this is just a terrible mess at this point. down on corruption in russia with tough pressure on all officials suspect to the wrongdoings president putin focused strongly on how to solve problems at home and his first address since returning to the top job with that same has more on what the russian leader outlined. several years ago when former president medvedev addressed brushes lawmakers this signaled major

constitutional changes for the country with a presidential term being extended to six years this time when president putin delivered his first annual address after returning to the kremlin for the third time it ran no major sensations nor political changes but at the same time this speech was even more significant as some have already said than many others before this time which is barely spoke about any foreign policy issues the main focus was on domestic problems in russia and there have been plenty according to russia's president in fact he started his speech by saying it is now or never as the world is going through a crisis russia must stand up to all these challenges and the first and the most correct way to do that is to invest in two youths not rich it is the whites that as of today the percentage of healthy active able bodied people in russia aged between twenty to forty is one of the highest in the world twenty years' time economically

active population could shrink by fifty percent less we do something this trend will continue either we provide interesting jobs give opportunities to create business build families raise children be happy with just a few decades russia will become a poor country populated by an elderly generation incapable of preserving its own territory. but probably the biggest problem dragging russia back for the past two decades has been corruption among the higher echelons of power that is because the largest probably the largest chunk of the speech was dedicated to this burning issue to clear is that probably the process message coming out from russian president this time on the fight against corruption was that north korea regardless of how high she or he or she is can feel safe from punishment if he or she is found in embezzlement or

any corrupt of actions in their governmental bodies so tough on the issue that sometimes it seemed that she was not speaking to the whole country or for the whole world to listen but he was addressing the people directly in this particular hole those who gathered to listen to what you had to say as lawmakers people from the cultural fears and military coup or david in order that we could you know how can people trust an official or a politician who talks a lot about the good of russia to the same time and tries to take his money out of the country i ask you to support the bill to limit the amount of foreign accounts and staunch that officials and politicians can. get the pity of the political don't applaud yet maybe we would like everything i have to say in just one week's time i didn't put in we'll be holding an annual press conference for the world media and the eyes of the entire planet will again be on the russian president let's see russia ski reporting from

inside the kremlin whether they may putin said the coming years will be critical for the world and might even bring some upheaval relations with the u.s. are always in focus critical analyst i was on the sort of on off says there strained because of political infighting in washington. i believe that it will be very difficult to come back to the reset because as inherited from himself from his previous time impala a divided congress still has a lot of so-called hole. will be quite aggressive and will be quite a in the opposition towards russia and its initiatives and we have seen that recently witness said during the so-called magnitsky act it was passed by the congress and the president will have no other option as decided into action. so

with this new move and the russia promise to retaliate adequately i don't think that we can go to business as usual and we will see that the next four years of obama storm will be filled with tensions between russia and the united states. the u.k. has revealed who's going to stump up to revive its fucking economy but the rich can rest of these the government's going to be targeting the poorest as we report shortly. egypt's judges jump ship refusing to oversee the constitutional referendum as anger escalates between the opposition is missed the analysis on the protests by country after the break. looking at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with

those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us they come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia now astray and come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it the scenery and trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all friends who brought their dia to life. five years ago mother put a scare of a bill to dog cannell in the village kids from the local all when it came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some

the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but mother per square also encourages her kids to become dab hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their website and they're in touch with their busy mother twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my only interests not play any role anymore and regardless of whether parsky has hoskins window race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts.

here watching our. british government is a promising its economy can be steadily revived but it's pensioners or young mothers who are paying the price that's point boy her experience the cost of recovery will mean penny pinching from the poorest. the brits have got it coming or often it's in talks to tax some welfare that's going to see those with the least squeeze the most so while the treasury chief admits millionaires are about to get an average tax cut of their one hundred thousand pounds a year from next april it's the less fortunate who bear the brunt of dealing with the u.k.'s ten billion pound welfare bill but the cuts will come in disguise take for example the new so-called bedroom tax tenants in council housing will get less than benefits if their state funded accommodation is deemed too big for them some

local authorities already say that could push up to four thousand people into homelessness especially as they're already being squeezed with an increased cost of living that's making christmas tough in many households the government insists it needs to fix public finances and that means cuts among various with too little to spare the chancellor has really made the main target of his austerity the poorest families he's cutting the support received for the working poor three tax credits and so on also for the for those on able to work it's not just bedrooms being taxed but motherhood as well last week the chancellor announced that maternity pay would be capped meaning that pregnant women will be almost two hundred pounds worse off starting next year opposition labor m.p.'s have labelled it the mummy tax and an unprecedented raid on families and that softer those at the other end of the age

scale were left reeling this year from the granny tax leaving pension as a further three hundred pounds out of pocket and a winter of worry ahead david cameron might have promised to be the best family friendly government ever but with friends like that who needs enemies. stand ins are giving a whole new meaning to launching a perfume this is seventy find the fragrance with firepower and off the rockets gaza used against israel's recent air offensive as we report online. magic numbers find out why today's date comes with some rather musing superstitions dot com has twelve must know facts about the twelfth the twelfth of the twelfth.

egypt's so opposition is calling for a no vote in the constitutional referendum which egyptian experts have already begun voting present a mercy says the internal votes will be done in two stages starting on such the end concluding a week later that decision comes because of a shortage of judges to supervise it ninety percent of the country's judges say they'll boycott the referendum seen as on the present and divisive on tuesday thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of cairo in protest to stop the draft is the most staged a rival about it to show their support from a sea of it it all comes amid a high military presence of the president ordered the army to maintain security in the country meanwhile egypt has asked today repayment of the u.s.

to burden because of the crisis columnist and author eric margolis is dependence on foreign funds means has a tough balancing act. i think there will be more violence you know i was in tahrir square last year with demonstrators when the shoe is on the other foot and there they were all for marsian against the dregs of the mubarak government egyptians are very angry there's tremendous the pulsating fury in egypt against the government still forty years of a brutal dictatorship and the egyptians want change they're just not true what and i am worried that there is nice and easy going is a trap door that there is a potential who are a really explosive response egypt's can't feed itself it has to rely on undone nations from the united states from the solution gulf arabs the international

monetary fund so that morsi has to peel them so we can't go too far with this islamic programs lest his money be kind of so easily a bird fine balancing act but he's been caught out on the wrong foot now let's see . if you can back off what you do and try and reestablish some. of that it's a take a look at some other stories making headlines across the world a gunman opened fire on christmas shoppers in oregon in the united states two people were killed and one injured in portland before the suspect apparently turned the weapon on himself the man was reportedly wearing a camouflage suit and hockey mask and carrying an assault rifle at least investigations under way. but as well and president hugo chavez is on the go on his fourth cancer surgery in cuba has been described as successful travis urged his supporters to back vice president nicolas maduro should his creation force him to give up his presidential g.t.s. is latest treatment comes two months after he was reelected in

a tight vote. hundreds of buddhist monks have taken to the streets of me in march to protest against the government's response to last month's rally it's a copper mine billion dollar mile expansion project is said to be fiction many local residents least fifty people were injured when police used tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators protesting against the planned u.s. has recently lifted its economic sanctions on the country citing its improved human rights record. for buses in the u.s. may no longer be a place for private conversation that's according to the news website the daily which claims it's called evidence showing public transport is being equipped with audio recording devices about a million dollar upgrade is to boost passenger security and these reportedly already underway in several u.s. cities where the man who broke the news michael brick says the new technology sparks all kinds of privacy concerns privacy experts they're very concerned that

there were weight with other sorts of technologies that they were all familiar with the little development is there is a recognition software g.p.s. devices. a number of other technologies on the market already are coming to market . this can lead us down. one step closer to tracking individuals the privacy law experts i spoke to said that this adds a different dimension it's one thing to be able to see someone moving around it's a different thing to be able to take your what they're what they're saying. warnings that around thirty minutes time coming your way we explore the mystery of the death of joseph stalin special reports.

of the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the volga dong canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen locks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe empowers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar but in the president of the hydroelectric

plant has done significant damage because it's stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fallen into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines are on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building on the bogus front plane more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now. but lost the voice of the voters of color jay might stop being could. be the first time in fifty here as the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to life. meaning that the mighty volga is treated with the respect it deserves.

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